The Mad Draklor
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I'm starting to doubt if Sony will drop the price this year...
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NPD Sales Results for August 2015 [PS4 #1 HW/SW, 7M Amiibos LTD, 600K LTD Splatoon]
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I'm starting to doubt if Sony will drop the price this year...
You're joking right? Sony has the marketing deal with EA for battlefront. No reason they can't advertise before each movie.
In 2009, the Wii sold 9.6 million, only 6% less than in 2008. That's a very small drop, especially because 2008 was the Smash and Kart year.
Honestly, i believe PS4+XB1 in 2015 will sell a bit more than the Wii in 2009... but a very, VERY BIT more. And i don't think PS4+XB1 will sell like Wii in 2008.
shinobi602
Member
August's just the pre-season anyway.
I've been in the camp of "no drop or at most $50" leaning towards "no drop" all summer. It's possible it could still happen, but with they way they are still maintaining sales, it's less likely.
They had their chance last year with Master Chief Collection and they blew it. Xbox One had win November and December, but MCC was dead in sales within a week once people saw how it barely functioned. And then Xbox just never recovered. It left Halo fans the series in an even worse place with a lot of fans trading in their games and systems. Halo 5 definitely looks to be a step in the right direction but there is definitely hesitation and I don't think they'll win October or November. Strong PS4 advertising in September, with strong advertising for CoD and Star Wars means they'll probably get November too. October even though it's a huge Halo month, how much can they really sell to offset PS4 gains? I mean the bundle is more costly as well because it's the limited edition game I think comes with it, as opposed to standard copy.
Except that Steam sales are not part of NPD.
That's also true. Those 6 days in the chart here probably were more than half the sales right? So with all those new releases the remaining sales for the month probably won't be enough. Maybe top 10 though, if there is a giant push or greater sale?
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
There was also the Madden Bundle that subtracted from that software total.
Tough month to compete with September being the sports release month
Halo MCC dead in sales after 1 week? I believe you don't know that sold more than 1 million in 2014.
Sakura
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How many units did MGS1, 2, & 3 sell on their first month? Because TPP has sold better than all of them in almost every reported market.
If one of them hit 2m, then there's no question that TPP will too.
Bits N Pieces
Member
Until Dawn, Gears and Rare Replay all charting is great news.
TerryLee81
Member
He was responding to someone saying "Too bad Steam sales aren't tracked".
Obliterator
Member
I still don't think MGSV is going to be "that" big all things considered. Solid but nothing crazy
I don't have access to new NPD data.
I can only go off what's in PR/Previous data.
I can tell you that it'll do better than "Start the Party!". That was Supermassive games first retail release.
March was the Smash Bros Brawl month, and the sales are fucking explode to >700k this month ( 721,000 ).
After that, April was the Mario Kart 6 month, and the Wii sales was flat ( 714,000 ), that's even if usually April is a HUGE drop, in April 2008, the Wii sold nearly more than double of PS3+X360.
By May, the Wii sales are continued to drop since August, and by September, Wii was starting to sell again insanity numbers, it sold over 800k in October, and was >2 million in November and December 2008.
Ps4 still winning even with all those crazy bundles and deals on xbone.
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Other than the bestbuy TV offer which was a cheapo clearance TV that added to the purchase cost there wasnt any crazy bundles. Both consoles seem content cycling pack in games for the time being. Things will be interesting once the holiday bundles show up around Black Friday.
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
Wut? It was like the best selling 1st party title for any system in 2014 afaik
Also, last October, a month before MCC, MS announced Halo series sales were at 60 million. This July they announced the series was at 65million. The only reasonable place the sales could have came were their mobile game, Halo Spartan Strike which launched earlier in the year, and MCC. I'd say 2.5million is where it should be.
Please.
If you isolate US sales only, it should be around ~200k (just a guess), which is pretty good, but negligible in the grand scheme of things.
Ahh fair enough. Does anyone else still give us that sort of info? Cream etc?
I'm pretty sure Mario Kart & Smash sold better.
Metal Gear Solid IV sold 995,000 in June 2008. ( only 2 weeks of sales ).
Metal Gear Solid V has 5 weeks of sales in September. I don't think will sell 2 million, i only think is possible, but yeah, i think will be over 1.5 million.
Snake Eater sold 290,000 first month. i don't know the others...
TerryLee81
Member
That's true 500k is worldwide, forgot about that. But I'm still surprised that it can keep the number 1 spot on the Steam charts, being a full priced game.
What do you want to know exactly?
Obliterator
Member
You guys think Metal Gear will be bigger than Batman and MKX? I mean maybe the 5 weeks will get it there but no way its opening week was anywhere near as big
Gaiaknight
Member
Part of e really hopes the PS4 can beat the record previously held by the wii and ds set in dec 09 and sell more than 3.8 million consoles in a single month. I think gaf would explode like it did when nintendo sold more than 7 million consoles in a single month between ds and wii.
Yes, cream pie is on the oven.
If that help... xD
Wii was such a monster, wow. Never gonna happen again. :O
LMAO this chart
I miss when Nintendo did this well
.10 days into September and list is the following:
#6 MGS:V PS4
#12 Taken King PS4 White Bundle
#22 Halo 5 (NICE!)
#28 Until Dawn
#41 Take King Legendary Edition XBO
#47 MGS:V XBO
#72 Forza 6 1TB XBO Blue Bundle
#76 Madden '16 1TB Black Bundle
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2015-09/videogames#1
Sony will likely take September
#6 MGS:V PS4
#12 Taken King PS4 White Bundle
#22 Halo 5 (NICE!)
#28 Until Dawn
#41 Take King Legendary Edition XBO
#47 MGS:V XBO
#72 Forza 6 1TB XBO Blue Bundle
#76 Madden '16 1TB Black Bundle
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2015-09/videogames#1
Sony will likely take September
Mario Maker is 2, and that comes out this month. But Amazon charts don't necessarily mean much.
with MGSV and Destiny i feel like that is kind of obvious
smurphdogg
Neo Member
True, but how many of those owners on steamspy got the game with a GPU? And would Konami count those as sales or not? Just random thoughts I had.
Regardless, it is doing well on PC.
Their first month sales.
I guess Snake Eater was 290k (pretty bad actually), what about MGS1 & 2?
Sakura
Member
MGS4 was also bundled though wasn't it? I think that would have an impact on its sales.
As far as I am aware MGSV is not bundled in the US, though I may be wrong.
Aceofspades
Banned
I expected X1 to win due to Gears. I was wrong
That's true, I think PS3 sold about ~450k that month, most of it was probably MGS4 bundles.
I'll stick with over 1.5m for the Phantom Pain, then.
Yes. MGS V bundle is only in EU ( and jap maybe ).
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Why wouldn't Konami count that as a sale?
They did sell the game to Nvidia. Who cares what Nvidia did with it?